Custard Pie

Yield

Pastry

Filling

3 cups milk.

2 teaspoons vanilla.

4 eggs.

1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup sugar.

Nutmeg.

Line an 8-inch pie pan with pastry. Make a standing rim on crust. Bake 10 minutes in a hot oven (450° F.). Scald the milk and pour over beaten eggs, sugar, vanilla, and salt. Pour into partially baked pie shell. Sprinkle with nutmeg. Bake. (The custard is set if no custard adheres to a silver knife inserted into center of filling).